[oe] BitBake parallel parsing testing

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:
>>> On 23-11-10 15:29, Chris Larson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for your time, and do let me know what you think, either of the
>>>> code, performance in general, or the new progress bar (shows an ETA),
>>>
>>> The heuristic for the progress needs some work, it currently seems to
>>> take in account all the parsed recipes instead of the last N recipes.
>>
>> That's what our progress display always did, it's just more obvious now.
>>
>>> Try ctrl-c'ing it at 75% and restarting, you'll see the ETA taking weird
>>> values. In my case it stayed on "10 seconds" for more than a minute.
>
> Okay, I disabled the ETA display for the time being.  It's useful, but
> less than reliable, so we'll revisit it after revamping the progress
> handling and incorporating cache file loading into the progress.

btw my timing mesasrurements were against the wall clock and not ETA
displayed by bitbake

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> Christopher Larson
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> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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